Alan Chien remembers being astonished by magic. Out on the schoolyard in 2007, he stood among a crowd of excited elementary school students. He witnessed one of his classmates transform four different playing cards into the same card: the king of spades. Read more...

Photo: Fourth-year psychology and economics student Mike Li (left), first-year economics student Carlos Suarez (middle) and first-year microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics student Alan Chien (right) are members of the Magic and Illusion Student Team, which will perform its second annual “An Evening of Magic” on May 18 at the UCLA Northwest Auditorium. For Chien, performing magic became a way to let his personality shine. (Jintak Han/Daily Bruin)

Silvia Baker sat in a dark wooden studio filled with mannequin heads wearing wigs and masks placed on countertops. Among the makeup brushes, hairpieces and a Frankenstein head figure, the film and television hairstylist fluffs a blonde wig that was part of her Halloween costume as Harley Quinn from “Batman.” For her job, she works on hairstyles that contribute to the distinctive look of film characters seen on screen. Read more...

Photo: Silvia Baker is the 2016 MAC Cosmetics Artist in Residence in Make-up and Hair Design. For her Halloween costume, Baker fashioned a blonde wig to look like Harley Quinn’s hair from “Batman.” (Margarita Dreiling/Daily Bruin)